Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Blog

There’s an online place just for doctors, and it’s called Sermo. Sermo (their tagline is “Know more. Know earlier”) is a social networking site where MDs can hang out and talk to other MDs about what doctors talk about, like medical observations, questions, and opinions that contribute to medical knowledge.

Check out Sermo’s FAQ that addresses some popular questions, such as:

• How will my personal information be used?
• If I give an opinion about a medical question, is there any potential malpractice liability?
• How do I know that Sermo members are really MDs?

Want to know even more? Click the below picture to learn about their business model and understand how clients (health care, governmental, and financial institutions), who pay subscription fees, use Sermo to inform their decisions.

Want to see Sermo for yourself? Check out the tour.

Want to read what people are saying about it? Check out their news page.

And, if you decide to use it, please come back and let us know your experience with it by leaving a comment below. Also, if you know of other collaborative tools–such as one specifically for nurses, public health professionals, dentists–please let us know.

UCLA is experiencing access and linking problems for multiple e-journals on the Wiley Interscience platform. On July 1st, 2008, all e-journals previously published by Blackwell Synergy were transferred to Wiley Publishers. Due to this changeover, UCLA affiliates may be denied access to specific e-journal titles and the UC-eLinks service is not functioning optimally.

If you are unable to access an e-journal that UCLA subscribes to, please contact the Biomedical Library or your subject library.

If you are using UC-eLinks and click on the “Access this article online” link, you may be directed to the main page of Wiley Interscience rather than directly to the article. If this occurs, you will still be able to access the article. Browse by product type “journals,” use the alphabetical browse to navigate to the journal title, then navigate through the journal home page to the year, volume, and issue you require.

We are working to resolve these issues and restore full access and functionality as soon as possible.

Have you ever spent time creating an elaborate PubMed search and then sifting through the results to find the perfect articles?  Don’t you wish you could save your searches and selected articles so you didn’t have to go through that process all over again?  Well, you can by using PubMed’s My NCBI!

Use My NCBI to save searches and set up email alerts for saved searches on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.  You can also save multiple collections of articles (e.g., one collection for each research topic).

Do you normally use the same limits (e.g., specific age group, gender, publication type, publication date) for each search?  With My NCBI, you can choose filters that group search results so when you’re on the results page there will be a tab for each filter you’ve created.

Read PubMed’s My NCBI Help section for more information.  Let My NCBI save you time by streamlining the research process!